This coming in and out

Of your life

Leaves my own life wide open

To more sorrow

Than anyone should rightly have.

It is not that I don't want to come

But going is such pain

And I don't want to hurt again

I feel the just joined tendrils break apart

I take it stone-faced but oh! My heart!

I cry no overt tears or weep

But stolen is all needed sleep.

For many lifeless days on end

And endless days come round each bend

I yearn for all the things I taste

While in love's strong command

The glitter in your eyes

The shiny lips unclosing under mine

The softness of your skin

The sound of your impulsing breath.

As if the world had now been washed

In acid colour-clearing lye

I feel bereft of hope for life

And could quite sanely die

And if I did

My one regret would be

No more of you to see!

I live in hope

Of yet another meeting

Another moment

Filled with us

But shall live on

I simply must

Although

In days of clouds

Enhanced only

By the silver-lining

Of our yesterdays.